Porbandar

Porbandar
/pawr bun"deuhr/, n.
a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India. 96,756.

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      city, west-central Gujarat (Gujarāt) state, western India, on the Arabian Sea coast. It was controlled by the Jethwa Rajputs from about the 16th century. Porbandar was the capital of the former princely state of Porbandar (1785–1948) before it became a district.

      Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand) was born in Porbandar in 1869, and both his birthplace and the neighbouring Kirti Mandir, a museum dedicated to Gandhi, are major tourist destinations. Other sites in the city include Darbargadh, a fortified palace built by Rana Sartanji; Sartanji Choro, Sartanji's summer pavilion; the Huzar (Huzoor) Palace; and Bharat Mandir Hall, containing a huge relief map of India and painted pillars showing religious figures and persons from Hindu epics. The city is famous for its building stone, and it also produces a variety of manufactures. It is served by major highways, is a railway terminus, and has an airport. Pop. (2001) city, 133,051; urban agglom., 197,382.

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